All I'm saying is: If they want to sell their songs on iTunes in album-only format, they can do it. Saying they won't be on iTunes because of album integrity reasons is a non-issue, since the solution is simple.
Red Hot Chilli Peppers feel this way too, aparently. So I take great delight in ripping their CDs to my iPod and mixing them in all sorts of different ways. =)
Seriously, not selling your music track-by-track isn't going to prevent the listener from doing whatever they like with it once they have it. So what's the point?
Any artist who wishes this can have it that way. There are albums on iTunes which are not available song-by-song, only as a complete work, or the only way to get all the songs is to buy the album as a whole; the only individual tracks available are what were released as singles.
Personally, I think it's a bullshit reason to not participate in online sales which doesn't have to be defended because it's "artistic" in origin. I guess these artists don't like their songs played singly on the radio, either? Or single videos on MTV? Whatever.
I've owned one of these for a while now. The scrollstick works just like a trackpoint, but has a plastic "saddle" instead of the nub (which to me is better). It's nice, scrolls both vertically and horizontally, and it's been available for something like 4 years.
IBM just doesn't do a good job of marketing their more interesting products, I think. =)
It doesn't have a 24 hour limit, you have to reset the time at 24 hours if you want to use it as a clock, because it doesn't wrap to 0:00, it keeps counting up... i.e. 23:59...24:00, and later, 24:59...25:00.
It will do this to ~31 days, at which point the timers overflow.
It used to be if a page wasn't there I'd get a nice 404 or if the site didn't exist I'd get a 502 etc.
Only if the server was resolvable, you mean. In the event of an unresolvable URL, what *I'd* like to see (and no browser in my experience has ever done this) is pop up an error:
ERROR: The URL [http://badurl.com] could not be processed because [badurl.com] could not be resolved. DNS returned: NXDOMAIN
I remember meaningful error messages, too. I wish there were more of them. Just tell me what happened. I can take it.
How does Apple profit? Do studios pay Apple to have trailers on its site?
By selling QuickTime.
You can get the player for free, but it's the "foot in the door". The more interesting things you can do only with the full version, like authoring and so forth, and movie previews at Apple have become the de facto way of viewing trailers online.
I'm a fan of big iron, but any time you concentrate value, you concentrate risk.
Agreed, which is why you must take reasonable precaution. "Reasonable" gets bigger and more expensive the more you concentrate on a mainframe, cluster, or LPAR frame.
I've worked on some fairly heavy-duty financial networks. Geographically redundant, EMC boxes in the middle, and regular failover drills.
And I've still seen customers get bitten.
Fair enough. I've seen them get bitten, too, but only when they don't listen to suggestions as to how to improve their redundancy, failover/cluster/HA, and/or DR plans (and test them). They can be as protected as they like from risks that vary from common to incredibly unlikely, it just costs more. =)
My main objection to your previous post was that the risk you illustrated wasn't very likely, if one took reasonable precaution to protect the machine.
While the dictionary definition [of [patriotism] may be correct, the current administration is changing the meaning of the word.
Nationalism is someone else loving their country so much they're willing to defend it from the patriots. =)
I see an alarming rise in what I can only describe as nationalism in this country. This is what the current administration is encouraging, or fostering, or inciting in the American people. Well, some of them, anyway.
It's been said many times here, but I'll say it again: GO OUT AND VOTE. Defend your America. Especially if you disagree with me... because I'll be voting.
Yes, patriotic. Patriotism is loving your country, not your government (per se), and being willing to defend your country from threat of harm. Even... no, especially, if that harm comes from it's government.
Tassach: Exactly, these rare events are what DR is for. You clearly understand enterprise computing.
Halo: I'm guessing you haven't done much enterprise-level computing. That same "freak electrical event" could fry 1000's of PCs too (I assume it's something that blows past your PDU-supplied redundant power and line conditioning... right?? I mean, that could happen...)
If that's the case, I'd rather restore -one- system at my DR site than 100, or 500, or whatever.
Luke should continue his evolution into a dark lord. Leia can realize her destiny as the Final Jedi and save him. And then go on to become corrupted herself.
I could go on, but I just remembered I don't care.
That may be, but every kensington lock I've seen has the same key.
I'll see your anecdote, and raise you one. I just tried 8 different keys (mine and my workmate's who are at their desks) on 36 different Kensington locks in our area. None fit any but their own lock.
It also opened the new window "maximized" (or an attempt at it, anyway) which looked terribly wrong on my Mac. I never allow browser windows to take up that much space.
Thirdly, iPods are enjoying triple-digit sales growth right now (last quarter sales were 180% above same quarter, previous year sales). Now, please tell me why a company that has 51% of the market, and is STILL enjoying triple-digit growth rates needs to change their pricing structure at all?
I agree with all of your points, this one especially. Your parent poster has no idea what he's talking about.
There's no reason at all to change their pricing structure. Looking at Apple's sales of the iPod and the iPod mini leads me to only one conclusion regarding their prices - that they're probably too low (for Apple, anyway). It's impossible to argue that they're too high, given such sales. I'd say they're exactly in the sweet spot for their target market.
I'm in the group of Mac buyers who bought one because of it's digital media capabilities, that it's Unix underneath, not Windows or Microsoft, AND oooh. Sexy.
Try coming back to Firefox when it hits version 1.0. Beta software should be expected to have issues like the ones you describe.
Especially considering your use of multiple extensions, many of which aren't maintained by the Mozilla team and thus are likely to have issues given the frequent nature of the update cycle.
It's a tough problem to solve, that's for sure. I'll bet close to every single corporate spy on the planet is the very model of a high-quality, professional employee.
I'm certain all of them will gaze with a steady stare and nod gravely when you explain the corporate policy against data on personal devices.
And I'm convinced if you have a policy against bringing such devices to the workplace, you'll never ever see one carrying one.
The "solution" of banning the devices is the wrong one, I'll grant you, but the companies here probably just can't think of anything else to do that's as easy as the stroke of a pen in the rulebook. Hiring employees you can trust is done exactly how? How do you know you can trust them? How long does someone have to work for you before you -know- they're not going to burn you?
There were Soviet spies who lived as "normal" Americans for decades before becoming active. With all the money in corporate espionage at stake, I'm sure you could find a few poeple who would work to become trusted for years, until they could strike, possibly gaining access to more data the entire time.
I can nearly tell from looking at it that the interface experience on this thing will be inferior to the iPod's.
I think that the success of the iPod Mini has shown that the majority of people who buy portable digital players just don't care about capacity as long as it holds "enough", but taking away from Apple's mindshare in this market is probably going to take more than a $50 discount.
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Red Hot Chilli Peppers feel this way too, aparently. So I take great delight in ripping their CDs to my iPod and mixing them in all sorts of different ways. =)
Seriously, not selling your music track-by-track isn't going to prevent the listener from doing whatever they like with it once they have it. So what's the point?
Well, the artist did write or perform the song, after all. All YOU have to do is muster up an A HREF.
Personally, I think it's a bullshit reason to not participate in online sales which doesn't have to be defended because it's "artistic" in origin. I guess these artists don't like their songs played singly on the radio, either? Or single videos on MTV? Whatever.
Microsoft has exactly duplicated the iTunes pricing structure, from what I can see so far.
IBM just doesn't do a good job of marketing their more interesting products, I think. =)
It will do this to ~31 days, at which point the timers overflow.
Only if the server was resolvable, you mean. In the event of an unresolvable URL, what *I'd* like to see (and no browser in my experience has ever done this) is pop up an error:
ERROR: The URL [http://badurl.com] could not be processed because [badurl.com] could not be resolved. DNS returned: NXDOMAIN
I remember meaningful error messages, too. I wish there were more of them. Just tell me what happened. I can take it.
By selling QuickTime.
You can get the player for free, but it's the "foot in the door". The more interesting things you can do only with the full version, like authoring and so forth, and movie previews at Apple have become the de facto way of viewing trailers online.
Pretty good push for their player software.
Agreed, which is why you must take reasonable precaution. "Reasonable" gets bigger and more expensive the more you concentrate on a mainframe, cluster, or LPAR frame.
I've worked on some fairly heavy-duty financial networks. Geographically redundant, EMC boxes in the middle, and regular failover drills.
And I've still seen customers get bitten.
Fair enough. I've seen them get bitten, too, but only when they don't listen to suggestions as to how to improve their redundancy, failover/cluster/HA, and/or DR plans (and test them). They can be as protected as they like from risks that vary from common to incredibly unlikely, it just costs more. =)
My main objection to your previous post was that the risk you illustrated wasn't very likely, if one took reasonable precaution to protect the machine.
Nationalism is someone else loving their country so much they're willing to defend it from the patriots. =)
I see an alarming rise in what I can only describe as nationalism in this country. This is what the current administration is encouraging, or fostering, or inciting in the American people. Well, some of them, anyway.
It's been said many times here, but I'll say it again: GO OUT AND VOTE. Defend your America. Especially if you disagree with me... because I'll be voting.
Yes, patriotic. Patriotism is loving your country, not your government (per se), and being willing to defend your country from threat of harm. Even... no, especially, if that harm comes from it's government.
Halo: I'm guessing you haven't done much enterprise-level computing. That same "freak electrical event" could fry 1000's of PCs too (I assume it's something that blows past your PDU-supplied redundant power and line conditioning... right?? I mean, that could happen...)
If that's the case, I'd rather restore -one- system at my DR site than 100, or 500, or whatever.
I could go on, but I just remembered I don't care.
All existing words, not variations (just like Airport) and often only tangentially descriptive (just like Airport)
Barrel locks. I don't know the model, they don't say anywhere on them. =(
I'll see your anecdote, and raise you one. I just tried 8 different keys (mine and my workmate's who are at their desks) on 36 different Kensington locks in our area. None fit any but their own lock.
Unless you're in the U.K., where the convention is as written. They tend to refer to companies as collective nouns.
The U.S. (and its standards of English) are not the world.
It also opened the new window "maximized" (or an attempt at it, anyway) which looked terribly wrong on my Mac. I never allow browser windows to take up that much space.
I agree with all of your points, this one especially. Your parent poster has no idea what he's talking about.
There's no reason at all to change their pricing structure. Looking at Apple's sales of the iPod and the iPod mini leads me to only one conclusion regarding their prices - that they're probably too low (for Apple, anyway). It's impossible to argue that they're too high, given such sales. I'd say they're exactly in the sweet spot for their target market.
I'm in the group of Mac buyers who bought one because of it's digital media capabilities, that it's Unix underneath, not Windows or Microsoft, AND oooh. Sexy.
Especially considering your use of multiple extensions, many of which aren't maintained by the Mozilla team and thus are likely to have issues given the frequent nature of the update cycle.
Well, he did say "high school level". =) I don't expect people to spell grammar correctly until they're undergrads, at best.
Good luck with that. I honestly can't see MS saying -anything- that would convince me I need more features than I use in my word processor.
I'm certain all of them will gaze with a steady stare and nod gravely when you explain the corporate policy against data on personal devices.
And I'm convinced if you have a policy against bringing such devices to the workplace, you'll never ever see one carrying one.
The "solution" of banning the devices is the wrong one, I'll grant you, but the companies here probably just can't think of anything else to do that's as easy as the stroke of a pen in the rulebook. Hiring employees you can trust is done exactly how? How do you know you can trust them? How long does someone have to work for you before you -know- they're not going to burn you?
There were Soviet spies who lived as "normal" Americans for decades before becoming active. With all the money in corporate espionage at stake, I'm sure you could find a few poeple who would work to become trusted for years, until they could strike, possibly gaining access to more data the entire time.
I can nearly tell from looking at it that the interface experience on this thing will be inferior to the iPod's.
I think that the success of the iPod Mini has shown that the majority of people who buy portable digital players just don't care about capacity as long as it holds "enough", but taking away from Apple's mindshare in this market is probably going to take more than a $50 discount.